He also argued that it was Clinton who was endangering national security with her policies in the Middle East and North Africa.
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“Hillary gets it”, he said. Another complains about the role given to Sanders supporter Cornel West, who’s been highly critical of President Barack Obama.
Clinton joined Obama on stage after his speech and the President and his 2008 primary rival clung together in an affectionate hug. And Obama will also credit Sen.
Democratic convention delegates are watching a video tribute to Vice President Joe Biden in which he proclaims he’s more optimistic than ever about the country’s future.
“He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class, give me a break”. Biden explained before offering his own well-used tagline: “That’s a bunch of malarkey!”
“This guy doesn’t have a clue about the middle class, not a clue”, Biden said. Delegates chanted “not a clue, not a clue” and jumped to their feet. Sighing one of those great phlegmatic sighs of his, Hume concluded, “After Joe Biden’s classic 1940s-1950s stem-winder-I guess this was the best [Kaine] can do”.
“She is corrupt and is known to be unethical”, Doug Gage of Binghamton said. “Everybody knows she is tough”. White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz said Obama doesn’t have an aversion to it, but that it’s usually clear who he’s talking about when he condemns Trump’s ideas.
Biden says Trump backs “torture” and “religious intolerance”. “You know who I don’t trust?”
“The bottom line is: Trump is a risky, reckless and radical choice”.
The Virginia senator introduced himself to the many Americans who had never heard of him before he was tapped by Clinton last week.
“Believe me!” he said mockingly, as the audience boomed back, “No!”
He says the United States “does not scare easily”, and when confronted with crisis, “we endure, we overcome and we always move forward”.
“Not really a facts guy either”, he sneered.
After his Florida event, Trump made stops in Pennsylvania and was headed for OH, energized by a Los Angeles Times poll out Wednesday that showed him leading Clinton, 47%-40%. “Summon what is best in us to elect Hillary Clinton”. “I think anybody who goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing”.
“I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”, he said, saying later on that “the American Dream is something no wall will ever contain”. Tim Kaine, all mocked Trump as a self-promoting reality-TV star, a fraud who boasts of his business successes despite a long record of bankruptcies and litigation by angry investors and vendors.
The night’s underlying theme was security — national security, economic security and safety from gun crime.
Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Clinton campaign has fought that image throughout the presidential contest. Think about that for a moment.
US President Barack Obama will spearhead a Democratic effort to paint Donald Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief today, hoping to capitalise on the mogul’s missteps in an escalating scandal about alleged Russian spying.
Vice President Joe Biden is casting Donald Trump as too unsafe to trust with the presidency. Bernie Sanders and his supporters for the intensity they brought to the Democratic nomination content.
Soon after Panetta spoke, the Trump campaign released a statement criticizing the former defense secretary’s stance.
The Republican nominee caused howls of outrage Wednesday, with a reference to thousands of Clinton emails held on a private server that were deleted.
But the night will likely be most remembered for the power of Obama’s rhetoric.
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“Speaking is hard for me”, said Giffords, who had to re-learn how to walk, talk and write “but come January, I want to say these two words: ‘Madam President'”. “This is a more fundamental choice – about who we are as a people, and whether we stay true to this great American experiment in self-government”.
